Search results for: “legal citation”
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List of Legal Systems in Countries Around the World
List of Legal Systems in Countries Around the World This guide identifies selected print and online sources describing the legal systems of foreign countries and their constitutions and constitutional courts. It is an essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and…
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Linked Data Principles to Legal Information
Linked Data and Law (Legal Information) Note: see the Encyclopedia’ Linked Data project at Lawi Metadata Bob DuCharme discussed the value of linked data in United States law. DuCharme notes, “At a recent W3C Government Linked Data Working Group working group meeting, I started thinking more about the role in linked data of laws that…
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Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research
Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic, in “Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma”(42 Stan. L. Rev. 207, 214 (1989)), wrote that “Some scholars note that the inability of lawyers to follow the development of the law either nationally or…
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History of Citation Indexing
History of Citation Indexing Legal Citation indexing originated with a table of cases that Joseph Story began in 1743. For centuries, the history of Legal Citation indexes wes related to the history of print law reports. The founder of modern citation indexing and citation analysis is Dr. Eugene Gartfield. He was the founder of ISI®…
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Web of Knowledge Citation Indexing Service
Web of Knowledge Citation Indexing Service Electronic index resource details: Philadelphia, PA: Institute for Scientific Information, 1899-. Daily. Legal Resource Review According to “Introduction to Research in International Law, Research Guide” (see Further Reading), this citation index service are “multi-disciplinary databases of bibliographic information indexed so that you can search for specific articles by subject,…
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List of Legal History Broader Databases
List of Legal History Broader Databases The following databases are comprehensive, covering a wide selection of time periods, and can be a starting point for a more specific database. Primary Sources Databases These databases provide access to full-text materials from the Middle Ages to the present: handwritten manuscripts, early printed treatises, pamphlets, etc. Some of…
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Legal Abbreviations, Historical 3
Legal Abbreviations, Historical 3 Evidence Verbally (or in writing not under seal) evidence may be heard to show the meaning of an abbreviation or the particular word for which it stands in a written instrument ; but not to show the intention with which it was used. In an action upon a stock contract, the…
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Legal Abbreviations, Historical 2
Legal Abbreviations, Historical 2 Affidavits, etc. The characters N. P. and J. P. indicate respectively the offices of Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, and their use does not vitiate a jurat. “Ex. A “means “exhibit A”; and “C. P. C. C,”annexed to the name of a person before whom an affidavit was sworn…
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Legal Abbreviations, Historical
Legal Abbreviations, Historical information Introduction A shortened form of words obtained by the omission of one or more syllables from the middle or end of the words, according to the Bouvier’s Law Dictionary. As almost every word in the language may be abbreviated, the number may be made very large. The broadest rule which has…
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Indexes to Legal Periodicals
Indexes to Legal Periodicals There are several ways to find articles in legal periodicals. In several countries, there are periodicals or paper indexes, like the ones listed in this entry. There are (in some cases, there were) other indexes (like Abstracts of Book Reviews in Current Legal Periodicals, or Legal Contents). And there are legal…
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Online Citation
Problems with the online citation See Legal citation and the Encyclopedia and How to Cite the Encyclopedia MLA Guidelines The writer may choose to include the web address of the page, but only when the reader needs the URL to access the page or otherwise required by the professor, when applicable. Although MLA guidelines previously…
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List of Banking legal online resources
List of Banking legal online resources 1. Australian financial review Description The AFR is Australia’s daily finance and technology publication. It provides a daily analysis of the latest news from the Banking, Finance and Information Technology sector, and breaking news from the business sector and the political and legal arena. 2. Cybercrime Description Report of…
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Legal Information Institute resources
Legal Information Institute resources 1. Australasian Legal Information Institute Description The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australian legal materials, especially primary materials such as legislation and caselaw 2. Australian Treaties Database Description “The Australian Treaties Database (ATD) is an on-line resource for researching treaties to which Australia is a signatory,…
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Legal Information Institute resources
Legal Information Institute resources 1. Australasian Legal Information Institute Description The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) provides free internet access to Australian legal materials, especially primary materials such as legislation and caselaw 2. Australian Treaties Database Description “The Australian Treaties Database (ATD) is an on-line resource for researching treaties to which Australia is a signatory,…